The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in April it will consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on cast iron soil pipe from China (A-570-079/C-570-080); steel wheels from China (A-570-082/C-570-083); and utility scale wind towers from China (A-570-981/C-570-982). It also will consider revoking the AD orders on large residential washers from Mexico (A-201-842), and on utility scale wind towers from Vietnam (A-552-863). These orders will be revoked, or the investigation terminated, unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to the U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by April 1 for producers and exporters subject to 35 antidumping duty orders, 21 countervailing duty orders and two suspended AD/CVD investigations with March anniversary dates.
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of aluminum lithographic printing plates from China (C-570-157), after finding illegal subsidization of Chinese producers in the preliminary determination of its CV duty investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after March 1, the date that the preliminary determination is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register.
President Joe Biden said a regulatory effort from the Commerce Department to curtail the use of software, sensors and cameras in automobiles made by Chinese firms is one of the actions the administration is taking "to make sure the future of the auto industry will be made here in America with American workers."
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 28 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of aluminum lithographic printing plates from China, it said in a fact sheet issued Feb. 27. Commerce set CVD rates ranging from 38.5% to 231.98% for all Chinese exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.
Sen. Josh Hawley wants the baseline tariff on cars made by Chinese companies to be 100%, not 2.5%, and to apply whether those cars are assembled in China, Thailand, Brazil, Hungary or Mexico.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 27, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on multilayered wood flooring (MLWF) from China (A-570-970) based on the final decision in a Court of International Trade case challenging those final results.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from China (A-570-909). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Aug. 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022.